Word: setbacks
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...immediate effect of the summit was a sharp if not unexpected diplomatic setback for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime on Taiwan...
Harvard's pass defense, still smarting from Saturday's embarrassing loss to U'Mass and quarterback Phill Penningtion, received another setback yesterday, when it was learned that startig adjuster back Steve Golden suffered badly bruised knee ligaments in the game and will be lost indefinitely...
...that he'd lined up to build his East Coast empire decided not to come to Harvard after all, his plans to make the Crimson the class of Eastern swimming were given a pretty stiff shove backwards. Now the big question is whether or not he can overcome this setback and get a better season out of his high-geared swim program than last year's 5-4 record...
...return of the money last week, witnessed by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell,* marked the latest setback for Cleaver in his rapidly worsening relations with his Algerian hosts. Cleaver had been welcomed as a revolutionary hero in 1969, after jumping bail and evading arrest on charges arising from a 1968 Panther shootout in Oakland, Calif. The government of President Houari Boumedienne set him up in a white stucco villa in the diplomatic suburb of El Biar and granted him an allowance of $500 a month. Cleaver adorned the villa with two brass plaques, each engraved with...
...campaign or an easeful election eve in all his long political life. Considered the favorite in 1960, he lost to John Kennedy and two years later was even rejected for Governor by California voters. Starting far ahead, he let Hubert Humphrey nearly overtake him in 1968, and suffered a setback in the 1970 congressional elections because of an unduly strident campaign. Not much more than a year ago it looked as if he might become the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to be turned out of office. But now, for the first time in his scar-studded career...